YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO ENLIGHTENMENT

YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND

THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO ENLIGHTENMENT

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To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mindwrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind.This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over. ♥ From THE POWER OF NOW A GUIDE TO SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT by Eckhart Tolle

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I’m in the middle of 4 different books.

2 of them were written in the late 1800 early 1900.

Although different authors from different continents,

all of them touch the exact same spiritual concepts.

Different words, different times and form, but same concepts.

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Tolle, Krishnamurti, Castaneda, P. D. Ouspensky,

Yogi Ramacharaka and Hubbard to name a few.

To them the inner silence, (what Mr Hubbard calls TR0)

or silent mind is the goal and the only ‘way out’.

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The hidden enemy is the mind (s),

what we mistakenly and very often proudly call the self.

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Today, while researching

I was able to observe couple of thoughts

I was able in a very minor form to be a spectator of this ‘beings’

and slowly, slowly I started to exteriorizing…

I felt as one of the weights at the bottom of the balloon

had detached.

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I was able to see how many thousands of this weights I have,

and they all come with the same deceiving label: balloon.

So, we thing is the “I”.

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… This was only the beginning.

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Another wonderful realization

was about to blow up on my face:

we are not living life,

“life” is living us.

No matter what you do, how you feel,

where you are,

a spiritual being at his natural state

is not in any way part of this.

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We are told what we see,

what we feel, what we think.

We are told we are alive while

something else is living for us.

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I understood what mr. G meant when he talked about:

“And yet he (men) does not remember himself.“

He is a machine, everything with him happens. He cannot stop the flow of his thoughts, he cannot control his imagination, his emotions, his attention. He lives in a subjective world of ‘I love,’ ‘I do not love,’ ‘I like,’ ‘I do not like,’ ‘I want,’ ‘I do not want,’ that is, of what he thinks he likes, of what he thinks he does not like, of what he thinks he wants, of what he thinks he does not want. He does not see the real world. The real world is hidden from him by the wall of imagination.He lives in sleep. He is asleep. What is called ‘clear consciousness’ is sleep and a far moredangerous sleep than sleep at night in bed.”(IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS by P. D. OUSPENSKY)

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IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

by P. D. Ouspensky

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“He is a machine, everything with him happens.

He cannot stop the flow of his thoughts,

he cannot control his imagination, his emotions, his attention.

He lives in a subjective world of ‘I love,’ ‘I do not love,’

‘I like,’ ‘I do not like,’ ‘I want,’ ‘I do not want,’

that is, of what he thinks he likes,

of what he thinks he does not like,

of what he thinks he wants,

of what he thinks he does not want.

He does not see the real world.

The real world is hidden from him

by the wall of imagination.

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He lives in sleep.

He is asleep.

What is called ‘clear consciousness’ is sleep

and a far more dangerous sleep than sleep at night in bed.”

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS by P. D. Ouspensky

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And as you let go as you find out “who you are not”,

the spiritual mind grows stronger.

As you find yourself, even if just as an intuitive perception

things starts to appear from what they really are.

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I made a point to not ask questions about my crossing

into different worlds.

The answers do not belong to the minds.

I know that any explanation would be a perversion and an alteration

of a wonderful state of being.

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I know that the only barrier to freedom and knowledge

is my own confusion and identification with other synthetic entities,

with the rationale and limitation of their world.

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I stopped wanting to save the world.

Indeed there is no world to be saved,

and nothing will never change if not in the appearance

as long as beings are asleep.

As long as they are slaves of their ‘minds’.

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The best thing I can do is to write down my findings,

is to share the knowledge of others for the few ones

whos spiritual mind has regained enough power to see.

It takes a lot of work,

a lot of struggles and courage,

till we are able to grasp the simplicity of all.

But it is all wort it.

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The Power of Now :

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

“…don’t seek to grasp it

with your mind.

Don’t try to understand it.

You can know it only when the mind is still.

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When you are present, when your attention is fully

and intensely in the Now,

Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

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To regain awareness of Being

and to abide in that state of “feeling-realization”

is enlightenment.

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Identification with your mind,

which causes thought to become compulsive.

Not to be able to stop thinking

is a dreadful affliction,

but we don’t realize this because almost

everybody is suffering from it,

so it is considered normal.

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This incessant mental noise prevents you

from finding that realm of inner stillness

that is inseparable from Being.

It also creates a false mind-made self

that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.

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Identification with your mind creates

an opaque screen of concepts, labels,

images, words, judgments, and definitions

that blocks all true relationship.

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To put it more accurately,

it is not so much that you use your mind

wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all.

It uses you.

This is the disease.

You believe that you are your mind.

This is the delusion.

The instrument has taken you over.

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Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle

or build an atom bomb

doesn’t mean that you use your mind.

Just as dogs love to chew bones,

the mind loves to get its teeth into problems.

That’s why it does crossword puzzles

and builds atom bombs.

You have no interest in either.

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Let me ask you this: can you be free of your mind

whenever you want to?

Have you found the “off button?

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You are unconsciously identified with it,

so you don’t even know that you are its slave.

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It’s almost as if you were possessed without knowing it,

and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself.

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The beginning of freedom is the realization

that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker.

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Knowing this enables you to observe the entity.

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The moment you start watching the thinker,

a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

You then begin to realize

that there is a vast realm of intelligence

beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence.

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“…”I will tell you a little bit more,” he said finally, “but you must understand that any answer bring about limitation. The truth is on-going and beyond explanation, so it is better to be left with a question than to be given an answer. I can offer some pointers to you, but than it is up to you to think about these things in your own time.”
The last barrier by Reshad Field